this song makes me sad. has a calm, mellow feel about it, as most all death cab songs do. it's about a guy, sitting in the waiting room at a hospital, waiting to hear news about his dying lover. here's the lyrics:
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breathes as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak of the LCD took you a little farther away from me
Away from me
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself'
Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"
So who's going to watch you die?..
3 comments:
That song is so beautiful. I never really looked at the lyrics, though. I guess it is sadder than I thought. I wonder if Ben Gibbard ever went through something like this.
Thats pretty deep. I have not listened to as much deathcab as would have liked... I have actually been through something like this, and that is exactly what its like. My mom stopped breathing while we were on vacation. She had a rare form of pnemonia. She spent a week in the ICU of Topieka Kansas hospital. On the third day a doctor informed us that we needed to go say goodbye to our mother becuase there was no way that she would ever walk out of that hospital. I didn't think someone could put that feeling into words...
brandon :( i didn't know that :( that's terrible.
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